adjacent synonyms

adjacent

modif.

nearby, neighboring, adjoining, contiguous, bordering, abutting, tangent, juxtaposed, proximate, next, beside, alongside, facing, conterminous, coterminous, close by; see also near 1.

adjacent things may or may not be in actual contact with each other, but they are not separated by things of the same kind adjacent angles, adjacent farmhouses; that which is adjoining something else touches it at some point or along a line adjoining rooms; things are contiguous when they touch along the whole or most of one side contiguous farms; tangent implies contact at a single, nonintersecting point with a curved line or surface a line tangent to a circle; neighboring things lie near to each other neighboring villages

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